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...paper, called Niiu, is all about consumer choice: it gives readers the freedom to choose the types of articles they want to read, culled from a wide range of German and international news sources. After registering on Niiu's website, niiu.de, readers can access other newspapers online and select the pages or sections they find interesting, designing their own specialized paper. But instead of reading it online, Niiu is printed overnight and delivered to the subscriber's door the next morning, just like any other newspaper. (See the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...story box wrapped in a palisade of vertical aluminum tubes. From head-on it looks like a silvery bar code that's been sliced by asymmetrical window slots. Anyone approaching it will be on a journey even before the play begins. You enter by way of a descent, a wide concrete ramp that slopes down to a glass-walled lobby, one story below ground, made of stark concrete and gray metal, where light swords hang like stalactites from the ceiling. From the time of Orpheus and before, a subterranean journey has had psychological reverberations. This one bears just a hint...
...Taken together, it all makes you think of those wide-brimmed hats that English women wear to the races at Ascot. The stated purpose of the canopy is to act as a vast, three-acre sunscreen, making the plaza a more inviting place to mingle even on hot summer days. The unstated purpose is to give an otherwise highly distilled structure an extra bit of geometric gee-wizardry. Which it does...
...shifted in the past year. In 2008, the most popular reason cited was "to stay mentally active," which was given by 83% of those surveyed. Today, however, the top reason is "to earn enough money to live well," cited by 84%. That need for ongoing funding could have wide-ranging effects on the workplace. "You're going to see older Americans in the workforce longer, and that has implications for the entry level of the workforce," he says. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...future success. Novices often fall into the trap of thinking that they are performing well when they make money on a particular hand. They focus on the intermittent rewards, rising and falling with each incremental shift in their fortunes. But for the professionals, it’s only the wide-lens view that matters. It’s the difference between magnifying a single dip or rise in the Dow Jones and seeing it from a few feet away as a simple hiccup in a concerted (and, for the expert poker player, orchestrated) upward trend. You?...